Posted on 08/30/2008 6:26:11 PM PDT by autumnraine
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city beginning 8 a.m. Sunday morning but urged residents to consider escaping "the mother of all storms" before then.
New Orleans residents leave Friday via Interstate 10 westbound ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
1 of 3 more photos » "You need to be scared," Nagin said. "You need to be concerned and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century."
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Yes. I saw on the news last night that New Orleans had its three year memorial ceremony yesterday for the victims of Katrina, so that marked the date. I thought it was so sad to watch them doing this respectful ceremony while knowing another catastrophe could well be bearing down upon them. The participants seemed very brave and stoic.
May the Lord have mercy on all of those in Gustav's path.
I’m so sorry to read this. Prayers for New Orleans and everyone affected by this natural disaster. I can’t even imagine. I love living in the high desert out west and hope to all my life, but have little control over where we move to in the future. I’ve met several people in my life from Louisiana and they were some of the best humored and fun people to be around. This is so sad to be happening again. God bless.
If NO escapes disaster this time, it will be because of 1. Luck that Gustav turned out NOT to be “the Mother of All Storms” that Katrina was , and 2. That the levees and pumps had enough done to them that they could conceivably withstand another Category 3 Hurricane. , and 3. The the new Governor, Bobby Jindal had the foresight to make preparedness a priority going forward after his election, and 4. The Federal Government has ALREADY acted and put in place all the things they were thwarted from putting in place 3 years ago. It WON’T be because of the leadership of Ray Nagin. Though everyone will probably defer to him and let all the credit flow back to him. I was in NOLA surveying things and working on my nephew’s house in April 2006, and there was NO sense of any police presence or authority of any kind. There has been little coverage of whatever positive things that have been happening, since the operating principle is still “If it bleeds it leads”
Keep your fingers crossed that there will be no Katrina-like storm, if only so that we aren’t treated to Geraldo going down there and showboating his ass off, like he did last time/
And What State Do YOU Live In ?
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=66090
Evacuations and Production Shut-in Affecting Most GOM Output
MMS Saturday, August 30, 2008
Offshore oil and gas operators in the Gulf of Mexico are evacuating platforms and rigs in the path of Hurricane Gustav. The Minerals Management Service has activated its Continuity of Operations Plan team to monitor the operators’ activities. This team will be activated until operations return to normal and the storm is no longer a threat to the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas activities.
Based on data from offshore operator reports submitted as of 11:30 a.m. CST today, personnel have been evacuated from a total of 223 production platforms, equivalent to 31.1 % of the 717 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Production platforms are the structures located offshore from which oil and natural gas are produced. These structures remain in the same location throughout a project’s duration unlike drilling rigs which typically move from location to location.
Personnel from 45 rigs have also been evacuated; this is equivalent to 37.2 % of the 121 rigs currently operating in the Gulf. Rigs can include several types of self-contained offshore drilling facilities including jackups, submersibles and semisubmersibles.
From the operators’ reports, it is estimated that approximately 76.77 % of the oil production in the Gulf has been shut-in. Estimated current oil production from the Gulf of Mexico is 1.3 million barrels of oil per day. It is also estimated that approximately 37.16 % of the natural gas production in the Gulf has been shut-in. As of June 2008, estimated current natural gas production from the Gulf of Mexico was 7.0 billion cubic feet of gas per day. Since that time, gas production from the Independence Hub facility has increased and current gas production from the Gulf is estimated at 7.4 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
As part of the evacuation process, personnel activate the shut-in procedure, which can also be accomplished from a remote location. This involves closing the safety valves located below the surface of the ocean to prevent the release of oil or gas. During Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the shut-in valves functioned 100 percent of the time, efficiently closing in production from wells and resulting in no major spills from the Outer Continental Shelf. Shutting-in oil and gas production is a standard procedure conducted by industry for safety and environmental reasons.
The production percentages are calculated using information submitted by offshore operators in daily reports. Shut-in production information included in these reports is based on what the operator expected to produce that day. The shut-in production figures therefore are estimates, which the MMS compares to historical production reports to ensure the estimates follow a logical pattern.
After the hurricane has passed, facilities will be inspected. Once all standard checks have been completed, production from undamaged facilities will be brought back on line immediately. Facilities sustaining damage may take longer to bring back on line. The MMS will continue to update the evacuation and shut-in statistics at 1:00 p.m. CST each day until these statistics are no longer significant.
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“Port of New Orleans
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Freighters on the Mississippi River in New OrleansThe Port of New Orleans is a port located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the 5th largest port in the United States based on volume of cargo handled, second-largest in the state after the Port of South Louisiana, and 12th largest in the U.S. based on value of cargo. It also has the longest wharf in the world, which is 2.1 miles (3.4 km) long and can accommodate 15 vessels at one time.[1]
The Port of New Orleans handles about 84 million short tons of cargo a year. The Port of South Louisiana, based in the New Orleans suburb of LaPlace, handles 199 million short tons. The two combined form the largest port system in the world by bulk tonnage, and the world’s fourth largest by annual volume handled. For its part, the Port of New Orleans refers to itself as being “at the center of the world’s busiest port complex.”
“The Port of New Orleans is a major transshipment point for steel, rubber, and coffee. In fact, it is the largest port in the U.S. for rubber imports. Over 6000 vessels and 700,000 passengers pass through the Port of New Orleans annually, with most of the passengers sailing to destinations in the Caribbean Sea, Mexico, and up the Mississippi River in either cruise ships or steamboats.
About 5,000 ships from nearly 60 nations dock at the Port of New Orleans annually. The chief exports are grain and other foods from the Midwestern United States and petroleum products. The leading imports include rubber, chemicals, cocoa beans, coffee, and petroleum. The port handles more trade with Latin America than does any other U.S. gateway, including Miami.
New Orleans is also a busy port for barges and passenger cruises. The barges, approximately 50,000 annually; use the nation’s two main inland waterways, the Mississippi River and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which meet at New Orleans. The port of New Orleans handles about 50,000 barges yearly. It also handled nearly 800,000 cruise passengers in 2004, making it one of the nation’s premier cruise ports, with several ships from the Royal Caribbean, Carnival, and Norwegian cruise lines based there.
The port was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, but reopened and returned to normal operations for most cargo. The France Road container facility on the Industrial Canal remains closed.”
Now Go Chop Some WOOD!!!
Let it go under.
NY. There’s lots of migrants up here because of the agriculture.
Mother of All Storms according to Nagin.
Man, they just wanted this to be a Cat 5.
Now watch...People are going to be mad that they were "forced" to leave.
Most immigrants up here are Mexican. They work hard.
You’re right.
And I really think that they’ll be disappointed that is WASN’T the mother of all storms.
Many have been in Memphis for days, but not via train and not with the crime, I think. Downtown hotels have been booming.
That's theft.
We should be forbidding any development in NO, and should manage the situation by looking forward and building facilities in a more geologically sound area--realizing that constant change is the nature of a sinking delta.
If we chose to put our heads in the sand, we are dooming people. If it takes cynical observations to encourage a rational policy that saves people, then it’s not out of place, IMHO.
“We should be forbidding any development in NO, and should manage the situation by looking forward and building facilities in a more geologically sound area—realizing that constant change is the nature of a sinking delta.”
If we follow your idea, we need to forbid construction on virtually any shorefront, in parts of California, in tornado alley, and so on.
Thanks. I agree it is silly to evacuate and rebuild a city every three years solely for nostaglic reasons.
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